PLG Growth Marketing Manager

Role Description

As a PLG Growth Marketing Manager at Branch, you will have the opportunity to turn Branch’s self-serve motion into a predictable, compounding revenue engine. You’ll own the free-to-paid journey end to end — from the moment someone signs up, through activation and first value, to the upgrade that turns them into a paying customer. You’ll run a high-velocity experimentation program across the funnel and use AI to compound your impact — generating variants, personalizing experiences, and surfacing insights.

As a member of the Growth team you’ll partner closely with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and RevOps to build a self-serve experience that activates users and converts them without a sales touch. You’ll also own the demand that feeds the funnel — running paid acquisition, growing organic and AI search, and testing scrappy, unconventional channels to find efficient new sources of signups. This role is ideal for someone hands-on and deeply analytical, energized by funnel wins, sharp experiments, and finding the next lever that moves self-serve revenue.

As a PLG Growth Marketing Manager, you’ll get to:

• Own the self-serve funnel end to end — signup, activation, and free-to-paid conversion — with direct accountability for self-serve revenue.
• Plan and run paid acquisition across paid search and paid social (Google Ads, LinkedIn, Meta, and emerging channels), managing budget toward signups, activation, and CAC payback.
• Lead the strategy for organic acquisition for the self-serve funnel — SEO and AI / answer-engine search (AEO), content-led growth, and high-intent landing pages.
• Find and test scrappy, low-cost “guerrilla” growth tactics — developer and practitioner communities (Reddit, Slack / Discord, forums), referral and product-led virality loops, launch moments (e.g., Product Hunt), and co-marketing partnerships.
• Design, launch, and analyze a high-velocity experimentation program (A/B and multivariate tests) across acquisition, activation, and monetization; scale what wins and kill what doesn’t.
• Optimize new-user onboarding and time-to-value — remove friction, sharpen first-run experiences, and get users to their activation (“aha”) moment faster.
• Use AI tools as a core part of your daily work — generating and personalizing copy and variants, drafting experiment briefs, QA-ing tests, and pulling insights from funnel data.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to instrument the funnel, define key events, and build the dashboards that track activation, conversion, and retention.
• Turn product and behavioral data into insight — pinpoint drop-off, size opportunities, and prioritize the experiment roadmap.
• Align in-product, email, and on-site messaging across the self-serve journey in partnership with PMM and Email teams.
• Report on funnel performance and self-serve revenue contribution to leadership — clearly, frequently, and in business terms.
• Stay ahead of PLG and AI-driven growth trends, and bring new tactics and tooling to the team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on growth marketing experience, ideally in B2B SaaS or product-led / self-serve environments.
• A track record of improving funnel metrics — signup, activation, and free-to-paid conversion — through experimentation.
• Strong command of A/B test design and analysis: forming hypotheses, judging statistical significance, and reading results rigorously.
• Hands-on experience running paid acquisition (paid search and/or paid social) with accountability for CAC, ROAS, and downstream conversion — not just lead volume.
• Working knowledge of organic growth — SEO, content-led acquisition, and emerging AI / answer-engine search — and how it compounds for a PLG funnel.
• Hands-on fluency with AI tools for growth and marketing work — using them daily to scale content, personalization, analysis, and experiment operations.
• Proficiency with product analytics tools (Amplitude, Mixpanel, or similar) and comfort pulling your own data; working knowledge of GA4.
• Experience collaborating cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and Data to ship growth initiatives.
• Solid grasp of PLG metrics and motions — activation rate, time-to-value, free-to-paid conversion, and expansion.
• Excellent written communication and the ability to turn data into a clear, business-focused story.
• A very strong bias for action — you ship experiments and learn rather than wait for perfect information.

Requirements

In accordance with applicable law, the following represents a reasonable estimated compensation range for this role: the estimated pay range for this role, if based in New York City, NY, is $135,000 - $175,000. Please note that this information is provided for those hired in New York City, NY only. Compensation for candidates outside of New York City, NY will be based on the candidate’s specific work location. Actual compensation will be determined based on skills, experience, and geographic location and may be more or less than the amount shown above.

This role will be based at our New York City, NY office and is eligible to be fully in office, hybrid or fully remote in New York City, NY. This role is not eligible for remote work in any other location. The salary range provided represents base compensation and does not include potential equity, which is available for qualifying positions.

Benefits

At Branch, we are committed to the well-being of our team by offering a comprehensive benefits package. From health and wellness programs to paid time off and retirement planning options, we provide a range of benefits for qualified employees. For detailed information on the benefits specific to your position, please consult with your recruiter.

Company Description

Branch is the leading provider of engagement and performance mobile SaaS solutions for growth-focused teams, trusted to maximize the value of their evolving digital strategies. The Branch platform provides a seamless experience across paid and organic, on all channels and platforms, online and offline, to eliminate friction and drive valuable action at the moments of highest intent. With Branch, businesses gain accurate mobile measurement and insights into user interactions, enabling them to drive conversions, engagement, and more intelligent marketing spend.

Branch is an award-winning employer headquartered in Mountain View, CA. World-class brands like Instacart, Western Union, NBCUniversal, Zocdoc and Sephora acquire users, retain customers and drive more conversions with Branch.